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Toward Measuring AI's Effects on Skill Formation: The Stock-Formation Gap

chessucation — Wed, 26 Aug 2026 19:28:46 +0000

Article URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/2605.16283

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49454516

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New comment by chessucation in "It’s so hard to finish an idea that is not yours and is just suggested by AI"

chessucation — Wed, 26 Aug 2026 16:46:46 +0000

i've been dabbling with various assistant models and instances and find that there's an interesting "idea" that pops up from their synthesis and relevancy analysis at a decent frequency. some kind of "inverse prompting" in which the machine has an angle, perspective, opportunity (based on the context it's working with/in) and the human turns those seedlings into something useful... or else decides its weed to be discarded.

New comment by chessucation in "AI is hitting entry-level jobs hardest, Stanford study finds"

chessucation — Wed, 26 Aug 2026 16:26:24 +0000

it seems that the shift is different in kind from previous ones (but then again, perhaps people thought that about previous labor disruptions as well)

take ATMs. they automated the task but the rung above it remained human. someone to handle exceptions, sell the mortgage, etc. running a branch actually became cheaper. cheaper branches meant more branches, so teller headcount went up for two decades.

what seems different now isn't that the models are better at tasks. it's that the rung above is being climbed at the same time. the coordination layer is getting absorbed concurrently rather than a generation later.

that doesn't mean no new work appears but every historical instance seems to have some kind of "escape route" which i'm not sure exists this time around.